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Friday in the Fifth Week of Lent March 31, 2023 Today’s online Lenten devotion focuses on the life and ministry of Saint Cuthbert, a monk, evangelist, and bishop of Lindisfarne. Saint Cuthbert lived in the seventh century and as a boy was put in charge of his father’s...

Thursday in the Fifth Week of Lent March 30, 2023 Today’s Lenten reflection focuses on the patron saint of the Isle of Man, Saint Maughold (also known by the names Macaille, Maccaldus, Machalus, Machaoi, Machella, Maghor, Mawgan, Macull, and Macc Cuill). He likely...

Wednesday in the Fifth Week of Lent March 29, 2023 Our online Lenten meditation for today focuses on the life and witness of Saint Aidan, apostle to the English. Aidan was an Irish monk who joined the community founded by Saint Columba on the island of Iona. In 631 he...

Tuesday in the Fifth Week of Lent March 28, 2023 The online Lenten reflection for today takes the form of a prayer from Scotland that invokes God’s assistance in daily activities, so that the simple human activities of speaking and “passing through” the day will be...

Monday in the Fifth Week of Lent March 27, 2023 Today’s Lenten reflection focuses on the life and witness of Saint Alban, one of the first British martyrs. Alban, who came from the city now named after him (St Albans), offered himself for execution in the place of a...

Thursday in the Fourth Week of Lent March 23, 2023 Today’s Lenten reflection focuses on Saint Fiacre, the patron saint of gardeners, who is always depicted holding a garden spade. Fiacre was an Irish traveling hermit who settled at Meaux, in Brittany. There he is said...

Wednesday in the Fourth Week of Lent March 22, 2023 Today’s Lenten reflection focuses on Saint Piran, a monk of Cornwall and the patron saint of Cornish tin miners. It is said that Piran left his home in Ireland in order to share his faith in north Cornwall. A number...

Tuesday in the Fourth Week of Lent March 21, 2023 Today’s online Lenten reflection is a prayer from the Scottish tradition of the Outer Hebrides, recorded by Alexander Carmichael, a traveling folklorist who visited these islands and translated the prayer into the kind...

Monday in the Fourth Week of Lent Feast of St. Joseph March 20, 2023 Today is the feast day of St. Joseph in the liturgical calendar of the church, but in keeping with our series of meditations and prayers in the Celtic tradition, our Lenten reflection focuses on...

Friday in the Third Week of Lent Feast of St. Patrick March 17, 2023 Today’s Lenten reflection focuses on the life and witness of Saint Patrick, the famous Apostle to the Irish and one of the three patron saints of Ireland. Patrick was most likely born on the...